Preserving the Past for the Future
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Garden Road's garden story/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2021-09-02/shepardson-the-flint-familys-poway-legacy
In 1880, Horace and Hester Flint moved their family of eight children from New York onto 375 homesteaded acres of farmland along what is now Garden Road.
History is what we do.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2021-07-28/once-making-history-poway-woman-now-helps-preserve-it
Mary Shepardson is known in Poway for many things — being a member of its first City Council, Poway’s first female mayor and a former reporter for the Poway News Chieftain.
It was Poway's second-oldest church. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2021-07-22/shepardson-the-growth-and-decline-of-christian-science-in-poway
Christian Science, founded by Mary Baker Eddy and a group of followers in Boston in 1879 on the premise that illness is best cured through prayer alone, rapidly spread across the county.
Photos from Poway Historical Society's post
We go to the Way Back Machine for a look at Poway businesses in 1960-61 in the context of more contemporary aerial views.
One of Poway's unforgettable characters.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2021-05-20/shepardson-bette-bendixen-a-legend-in-a-park
On Old Pomerado Road, next to the VFW hall and a few blocks short of the old Big Stone Lodge, there is a tiny park.
Back into the archives again.
The arrival of a municipal water supply in Poway in 1954 opened the door for development.
The first subdivisions orf the 1950s, including Belvedere Estates, Green Valley Estates and Valle Verde Ranch, were on lots of 1/2 acre or more and did night require a sewer system.
The availability of sewage treatment in the late 1950s enabled the development of more traditional “tract” housing with smaller lots.
This map from the early 1960s, shows many of the subdivisions. Growth was also occurring with smaller, less formal divisions of land.
High Valley, shown on the map, was created by splitting lots, rather than as a single subdivision.
The 56 and 125 freeways, which would have bisected Poway, were never constructed, thanks to resistance from local residents and the Poway city council.
Do you have pictures and recollections of these developments?
Photos from Poway Historical Society's post
Back in the early days, Poway had a sterling reputation for agriculture, and a representative on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2021-04-08/shepardson-blazing-the-way-for-poway-agriculture
From the 1880s, well into the 1950s, Poway was renowned primarily for its agricultural crops.
We dived into the archives for some "Then and Now" pictures of streets and roads in Poway.
Photos from Poway Historical Society's post
Fate literally dealt Linda Frame a crippling blow at an early age.
Not specific to Poway, but we came across these ads from the 19th and 20th centuries while researching patent medicines.
Then and Now.
The 1976 Grand Opening advertisement for "Sambo's Square".
Most of the spaces in the center have changed names/purposes many times.
Sambo's Restaurant's prime location went through many new iterations, including a Chinese buffet and sushi. It's currently vacant. The current Google screen shot shows the center today, at 13132 Poway Road, across from the library.
The Kent family played a big role in Poway's early history.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now
The Kent family played a big role in Poway's early history.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now
With the closing of escrow, the fate of Poway Fun Bowl has been sealed.
This got us thinking about the demise of Poway's first bowling alley, which had opened in the early 1960s.
The growth taking place in Poway attracted the attention of the San Diego Union, then San Diego's morning paper.
We look back 55 years at a rapidly changing Poway -- and Rancho Bernardo -- the the pass of the phone book.
Unfortunately, a couple of pages are missing.
We take the Way Back Machine to the week's edition of Poway News. The Poway of the day was just beginning its transition from village to suburb.
Phone service (lousy) and sewer service (not yet available) were the hot news items, along with an update on Social Security information, social news, mind-boggling grocery prices and a shout-out to Rubin Tannenbaum, "Poway's Santa Claus."
COVID-19 means extraordinarily difficult time for restaurants, but it is always a tough business with many changes. Here are some examples through the years.
Some images we didn't have in our archives.
🎂Happy 40th Poway! 🎂
Forty years ago (Dec. 1, 1980) Poway officially became a city. The first meeting of the City Council was held at Twin Peaks Middle School and called to order by Roger Hedgecock, then Chairman of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. He swore in the city’s first elected council, consisting of Bob Emery, Linda Oravec, Clyde Rexrode, Mary Shepardson, and Bruce Tarzy.
For more city council history: https://poway.org/170/City-Council-History
Happy birthday to Poway. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now
Read 'Then and Now,' Mary Shepardson's column in the Pomerado News.
Photos from Poway Historical Society's post
Ralph Powers, a lifelong Poway resident and a member of the pioneer Hilleary/Powers family, shared remembrances of his school days here in the 1920s.
A look back at who, and what, was making news in Poway 60 years ago.
Best viewed on a larger monitor.
From new to old to new again.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now
With many changes underway along Poway Road, we look back 60 years at the businesses that were here, shown on recent aerial photos.
In the Poway News-Chieftain.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/news/story/2020-10-22/club-spotlight-poway-historical-and-memorial-society-is-preserving-the-communitys-past
The Poway Historical and Memorial Society is dedicated to preserving Poway’s history.
Last week we shared the Poway Telephone Directory from 1960. In the following five years, Poway added many new residents and businesses and acquired the typesetting abilities to produce a more professional-looking directory.
We look back at the Poway of 60 years ago through the pages of the community phone directory. (Donated to the museum by Vic Rauch.)
The roots of the missed rodeo.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2020-10-08/shepardson-a-rodeo-and-much-more#nt=00000169-7d6b-dd8a-a16b-7febf6f70000-liK0promoLarge-7030col1
Among the many events to fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic, was the 2020 edition of the popular Poway Rodeo, held on the Tierra Bonita Road property often referred to as the Rodeo Grounds.
In case you wondered why Rancho Bernardo and Rancho Penasquitos were "planned communities" and Poway wasn't.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now/story/2020-09-10/shepardson-paguay-the-rancho-that-wasnt
In the 1800s, while Spain and then Mexico controlled California, there were three highly desirable expanses of land flanking what is now Interstate 15.
When "go two miles and turn left at the big oak tree" was no longer adequate driving instructions, it was time to name the roads of Poway.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/pomerado-news/opinion/editorial/then-and-now
Read 'Then and Now,' Mary Shepardson's column in the Pomerado News.
Photos from Poway Historical Society's post
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